Highlights for Texas 2022: office openings slow in 2022; most active Q4 in five years; Dallas still on top; Commercial Litigation tops list, swapping with Corporate M&A Securities; a note on associate layoffs…

Highlights for Texas Q3 2022: comeback for Texas-based firms; record-low August; Corporate M&A Securities yields just 3 moves…

Highlights for Texas Q2 2022: surprising pause for second quarter; non-Texas-based firms increase share; Houston, Dallas and Austin growing concentration of lateral moves…

Highlights for the first quarter of 2022: near record-breaking quarter; lateral moves going to non-Texas-based firms jumps to 76%; five new office opens; Energy & Infrastructure gaining steam…

Highlights for 2021: record breaking Q4, returning to pre-pandemic levels; M&A accounted for 1 in 4 moves; Texas-based Jackson Walker tallied most moves in 2021; 10 firms entered Texas market last year, 6 in Austin; Houston's share of moves declined, Austin...

Highlights for the third quarter of 2021: partner moves robust and level; elite firms making presence known; Austin still drawing talent after office opens; 8 errors when recruiting talent…

Highlights for the second quarter of 2021: Austin making big gains; firms are interested but partners staying put; Texas-based firms dwindle; Aspire expands to Denver…

Highlights for the first quarter of 2021: moves drop as firms respond to external uncertainty; February storm freezes hires; health care practice area surges; nearly all moves split between DFW and Houston…

Highlights for 2020: phenomenal Q1 open; back half of the year nearly on par with 2019; M&A movement dominated; Dallas market heavily favored; a look back at recent years…

Highlights for the third quarter of 2020: non-Texas-based firms pick up the pace; pandemic not really reflected in practice area hires; Houston making noise with office opening; comparing year-over-year shows bullish Texas market…

Highlights for the second quarter of 2020: several groups are weathering the storm better than others, including native Texas firms, middle market firms and the Dallas market; pent-up lateral hires in second half of 2020 could result in more moves than 2019…

Highlights for the first quarter of 2020: huge start to Q1 outpacing 2019 and 2018; more M&A partner moves than all of last year; Dallas keeps hot streak with new office openings; now isn’t the time for “wait-and-see”…

Highlights for 2019: Texas remains strong despite drop in overall partner movement; non-Texas-based firms netted 66% of moves; Houston and Dallas dominated statewide market; Corporate Litigation moves hot, no sign of cooling…

Highlights for the third quarter of 2019: partner moves leveling off after 2018 new office boom and subsequent slow down; smaller markets getting squeezed out of the attorney race; a look at two Texas firms 18 months post merger and their potential to start attracting talent in 2020…

Highlights for the second quarter of 2019: partner moves on the rise after sluggish spring; Houston regaining attorney foothold following Dallas boom; Commercial Litigation movement remains active; and local Am Law firms continue losing talent to larger non-Texas-based and smaller Texas firms…

Highlights for the first quarter of 2019: the departures to out-of-state-based firms slowed; Houston is edging out Dallas in the attorney move count; March was particularly stagnant; and M&A is still the hottest ticket in town…